Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / in Verizon Online DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14642749 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:26:00 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:26:00 EDT Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14646867 gracie :
said by darcilicious See Profile :

I only suggested the DHCP guide after asking if his computer was doing PPPoE for him when no router was in the mix).
yes, i know, and i'm glad you did! a new resource to add...clear explanation.
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said by devivo30 See Profile :

Thank You, thank you, thank you...

-Bob
You're very welcome! :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14645595 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:54:43 EDT Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14645569 darcilicious :
said by gracie See Profile :

ah! and i thought the only accounts not using pppoe were in the west. thanx for the clarification!
For the most part, exGTE areas (which are not just in "the west") are DHCP. There are, however, a few pockets of PPPoE deployments when Verizon had thought they would switch everyone over to PPPoE -- that plan only lived long enough to confuse everyone ;-)

(Also, I only suggested the DHCP guide after asking if his computer was doing PPPoE for him when no router was in the mix).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14645569 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:50:08 EDT Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14645202 gracie :
said by devivo30 See Profile :

Gracie -- I am in Illinois (Central IL, between Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana.) My Verizon DSL is using DHCP not PPPoE.
ah! and i thought the only accounts not using pppoe were in the west. thanx for the clarification!
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This is a brand new Verizon DSL account. I just reached my activation date last week. Also, DSL has just recently become available in my area (within the past month or two.) So, if it's Verizon's strategy to switch from PPPoE to DHCP, that might explain it.

By the way, I'm in Le Roy Illinois, not Decatur. We recently moved. In Decatur, I had SBC DSL. Here in Le Roy, Verizon is the telco.

-Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14644626 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:39:44 EDT Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14644495 gracie : paradisecowgirl, that's a great resource, thanx. but it's for those on dhcp, NOT pppoe, and i thouht illinois was pppoe? wouldn't putting the modem into bridge mode and letting the router do pppoe, just as with the 2200, be the right approach here (no cloning)? or is there something different with the 6100? some of us have been directing 6100 users to the 2200 FAQ on putting it into bridge mode, but maybe that's wrong...?
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I wish I could buy you a beer! That worked perfectly. As soon as I saw the phrase MAC Address cloning, the lightbulb went off. I put the 6100's mac addy in the router, and it was able to get an IP from Verizon's DHCP server, and everything is working now!

WOW! I should have posted my question sooner. But I thought my problem was too esoteric... obviously not.

Thank You, thank you, thank you...

-Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14643084 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:42:22 EDT Re: [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14642749 darcilicious :
said by devivo30 See Profile :

If I connect the NIC of my computer directly to the 6100, I can connect to the internet from that PC.
In this configuration, is Windows doing PPPoE for you? If not, you're on DHCP and the Verizon guide is of no use to you. Use this instead: »members.verizon.net/~res08lyg/6100.htm It's for putting the 6100 in bridge mode for DHCP and includes a way to work around the MAC filtering/binding.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14642749 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:53:12 EDT [modem/router] Westell 6100 / Linksys Router / Verizon DSL Confi http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14642721 devivo30 : I am attempting to use my Linksys router with my Westell 6100 Modem (connecting through Verizon DSL.) I have tried following the FAQs both on this site and on Verizon’s Customer Support site for setting this up, but continue to run into problems with both.

If I connect the NIC of my computer directly to the 6100, I can connect to the internet from that PC. However, the settings in the modem are not what I expect them to be. When I look under the VC configuration, it listed as Protocol: Bridge, Mode: Routed Bridge. The guides all say I should see PPPoE under the Protocol (initially.)

So I continue with the guides and turn off the DHCP server on the modem, and change the Mode from Routed Bridge to Bridge. Then I plug the modem into the WAN port on the router, and set the router to PPPoE mode. But, it reports that it cannot connect to a PPPoE server. And at this point I am not able to connect to the internet.

I can get it to work a couple of different ways… For instance if I leave the Modem in Protocol: Bridge, Mode: Routed Bridge and plug it into one of the LAN ports on the Router, I can surf the web from all the computers on the LAN… However, the problem is that I am trying to host a web server on the LAN, and I can’t get any of the inbound requests to Web Server to work this way.

Another configuration that lets me surf from all the computers is to set the router to obtain an IP address automatically (DHCP) and then plug the modem into the WAN port. The router gets a local network IP address from the modem. Once again, I can surf from all the computers on the LAN, but none of the inbound traffic makes it to my web server.

Does anyone know why I’m not seeing what the guides are saying I should be seeing when I look at the modem’s initial configuration (specifically, why I’m not seeing PPPoE… )? Does anyone have any suggestions for things to try? I’ve been messing with this all weekend, so I doubt there are any permutations of settings I haven’t tried, but maybe I’m overlooking something.

Thanks!

Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14642721 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:49:00 EDT